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The army is using nanotechnology to make a new generation of combat uniforms. This isn't quite the same thing as what the article is talking about, but it is fairly similar (and interesting).

Marines' Flying Foot Soldiers

Marines making flying foot soldiers

QUANTICO, Va., April 19 (UPI) -- The Marines are developing small robotic flying machines that can fit into a soldier's backpack and, when called on, fly across battlefields, sending back to him or her video images of enemy positions.

"UAVs have typically provided the upper echelon of military commanders with sensitive reconnaissance but Dragon Eye is intended to empower the foot soldier," said Jim McMains of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA.

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All thats left is a remote cd changer, so I won't have to get up, remote chef so I won't have to cook, throw in a clone (just trolling here... I know what a clone is and isn't) to send to work for me, and I'm straight.

MTV's True Life exposed

This should be what happens here -- preserve the status quo, get rid of the two of 'em as soon as possible, and start fresh in four years.

Or you could do what Lybian leader Col. Moammar Gadhaffi suggests: "For U.S. to avoid a civil war, power should be split between the presidential candidates," he said. "In case Bush wins, Al Gore could be his deputy and vice-versa."

"Geeks, Where would you be without them?"

Off of Drudge's site